By Julian Goldsmith, 3 August 2000 14:55
NEWS Demon Internet has become the latest company to suffer a serious security breach involving its customers' credit card details. The company's headquarters were burgled, and a PC holding a cache containing partial credit card details was stolen. The company is now in the process of informing the customers concerned. One customer who was contacted by Demon earlier today told silicon.com: "I had a call this morning from Demon to inform me they'd had a break-in and a training machine containing credit card details was physically stolen from the office. They were ringing round to let customers know there may be a potential security risk and that I should inform my credit card company. [They] also offered me a month's free subs as compensation." Demon Internet said in a statement: "We experienced a minor breach of security with a burglary at one of our London locations, which involved the physical theft of a stand-alone system amongst other equipment. "This system held non-operational development information only and could not be reached from any public network or the internet. "This system held a few hundred randomly selected partial customer details... [including] credit card numbers and expiry dates. Customer names and addresses were not on this file. As a precaution, we are in the process of contacting all customers who may have been affected by this breach in security as soon as possible in order to advise them to contact their credit card companies. "We believe that the risk to customers is minimal. We apologise unreservedly to the limited number of customers who may have been affected."
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